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		<title>A century of London fashion in 100 seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was meant to post this in September last year, but was put in the back burner. On my recent trip to London, I was on the DLR and saw the Westfield Stratford City complex, and it reminded me about this video. Launched as part of the opening of the shopping complex on 13 September 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Military Funerals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Brown raises some valid points in his recent opinion piece. He argues that the prime minister and opposition leader should make the upcoming funeral of Private Matthew Lambert their last, and that it is time to depoliticise military funerals. Military funerals should never be politicised. But I disagree that this should be the last funeral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fit and Proper Persons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 had a very good &#8216;editorial&#8217; by John Finnemore on the phone hacking scandal in the UK. Titled preaching to the choir, I think encapsulates the varies issues and grievances surrounding the phone hacking, the closure of The News of the World, and News Corporation&#8217;s takeover bid for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In war, the law is not silent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geneva Conventions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was at the advance screening of Robert Redford&#8217;s movie The Conspirator. It was released while I was in the United States and I had intended on seeing it. Though I knew of the story of the assassination of the 16th U.S. President, I was not aware of the initial conspiracy to kidnap him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The USS Fitzgerald</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was invited on a ship tour onboard the USS Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald, along with a few other boats, planes, tanks, and U.S. defence personnel, are in Australia to take part in Exercise Talisman Sabre. The  destroyer is based at Yokosuka, Japan and is part of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Seventh Fleet. Fitzgerald, was active in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three things you need to know about failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading and listening to Tim Harford ever since I discovered him on the BBC and the Financial Times. He also was with the Scenarios team at Shell, so he cannot be a bad bloke! Incidentally he worked with my former boss. His recent article on pragmatism raises some interesting issues. He says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World in a Day with the UN Secretary-General: Controlled Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Found this excellent video chronicling a day in the life of the United Nations Secretary-General. It was made by mate David Ohana, who works closely with Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations. I caught up with David over lunch in New York and we relived old times and he was telling me amazing stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Renewable Energy Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this interesting graph from AOL Energy on Global Renewable Energy Production &#38; Consumption. The steady increase in renewables is due to the increased flow of capital to such projects. Brazil is interesting to observe. Europe as a whole is absent from this list. Wonder where the region will feature on the the ladder?]]></description>
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		<title>Can you see the future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week on my Delta flight from New York to Los Angeles, I was sitting next to a senior executive from Toyota. We discussed the future of the car industry, energy efficiency and mobility. I explained how scenario planning could be used to set strategy for the automobile industry, and why it is important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Habits of Highly Effective Terrorist Organisations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across this piece from the Oxford University Press Blog on management lessons for al Qaeda’s new boss, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Daniel Byman, a professor at Georgetown, lists five lessons that Zawahiri and other terrorist groups often fail to heed: 1. Put People First, 2. Smaller Can Be Beautiful, 3. One Bad Operation Can Undo Ten Good Ones, 4. Exploit Openings, Don’t [...]]]></description>
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